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To calculate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- Can you work out 250 × 12 in your head for me?
- Can you work out how to get to the university by car?
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
To make sense of.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- I can't work these instructions out.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: figure out, sort out
Antonyms: none provided
To decide.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- I can't work out if I like him or not.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: determine, judge, choose up, decide, find, posken, make a decision, make up one's mind, take a decision, work out
Antonyms: none provided
To bring about or cause to happen by work or effort.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- Near-synonyms: hash out, hammer out
- I think we can work out a compromise.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: hash out, hammer out
Antonyms: none provided
To resolve; to find a solution for.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- Near-synonyms: straighten out, sort out
- They managed to work out their differences.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: puzzle out, reason out, think out, absolve, decipher, get to the bottom of, iron out, meliorate, ravel, resolve, riddle, sleuth, solve, tease out, unpuzzle, unravel, unriddle, unsolve, upsolve, work out, Any from Thesaurus:untangle, straighten out, sort out
Antonyms: none provided
To develop or devise in detail; to elaborate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- Near-synonyms: plan out, lay out
- to work out a plan
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: plan out, lay out
Antonyms: none provided
To smooth or perfect.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- Near-synonyms: iron out, smooth out
- This is a beta version; we're still working out the kinks.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: iron out, smooth out
Antonyms: none provided
To conclude with the correct solution.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Examples
- Near-synonym: add up
- These figures just don't work out.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: add up
Antonyms: none provided
To succeed; to result in a satisfactory situation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Examples
- Near-synonym: pan out
- Are you still seeing John? – No, it didn't work out.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: pan out
Antonyms: none provided
To exercise, especially by lifting weights.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Examples
- John won't be here for a while because he's working out.
- Wow, you're looking good! Do you work out?
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
To strengthen a part of one’s body by exercise.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
To earn a wage working away from one's farm.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, intransitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see work, out.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, transitive
Examples
- Using some tweezers, he worked the bee sting out of his hand.
- He works out of a small office shared with three others.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
To remove all the mineral that can be profitably exploited.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: business, mining
Examples
- The gravel pit had been worked out.
- A worked-out chalk pit or quarry
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
do physical exercise
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- She works out in the gym every day
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: exercise
Antonyms: none provided
Narrower terms: limber up, warm up, loosen up, train, tumble, tone, tone up, strengthen, weight-lift, weightlift, press
give a workout to
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- Some parents exercise their infants
- My personal trainer works me hard
- work one's muscles
- this puzzle will exercise your mind
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: exercise, work
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: work, put to work
Narrower terms: warm up
come up with
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- His colleagues worked out his interesting idea
- We worked up an ad for our client
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: work up
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: develop, make grow
work out in detail
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: elaborate
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: develop, make grow
find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- did you solve the problem?
- Work out your problems with the boss
- this unpleasant situation isn't going to work itself out
- did you get it?
- Did you get my meaning?
- He could not work the math problem
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: solve, figure out, puzzle out, lick, work
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: understand
Narrower terms: answer, resolve, riddle, strike, guess, infer, break
make a mathematical calculation or computation
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: calculate, cipher, cypher, compute, reckon, figure
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: reason
Narrower terms: quantize, quantise, extract, process, prorate, miscalculate, misestimate, recalculate, average, average out, factor, factor in, factor out, add, add together, subtract, deduct, take off, multiply, divide, fraction, interpolate, extrapolate, differentiate, integrate, survey, estimate, gauge, approximate, guess, judge, budget, capitalize, capitalise, resolve, solve
be calculated
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- The fees work out to less than $1,000
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: total, number, add up, come, amount
happen in a certain way, leading to, producing, or resulting in a certain outcome, often well
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- Things worked out in an interesting way
- Not everything worked out in the end and we were disappointed
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: turn out, come out
No etymology was provided for this word.